I3blocks

Installation

Get it from github:

cd ~/apps
git clone git@github.com:vivien/i3blocks.git
cd i3blocks
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
cd ~/.config
git clone git@github.com:vivien/i3blocks-contrib.git i3blocks

Set up and stow your i3blocks config file:

cd ~/development/config/ubuntu
cp case/.config/i3blocks/config #newmachine#/.config/i3blocks/
git add #newmachine#/.config/i3blocks/config
setup_stow.sh

Then update the status_command in your i3 config:

status_command SCRIPT_DIR=~/.config/i3blocks /usr/local/bin/i3blocks

Config

There are tons of dotfiles out there. Edit mine here:

.config/i3blocks/config

With the newer config of separated scripts in i3blocks-contrib, your commands need to look like this, eg:

[volume]
command=volume/volume

I like a space after the label. To do that, add ONLY a space after the unicode symbol, eg:

label=♪[__one_space__]